364 ROBINSON. 



Sect. IV. CoNOCLiNiuM (DC.) Benth. (see p. 320). 



Key to Species. 



Leaves deltoid-ovate, cordate, scabrid above; corj-mbs terminal 



44. E. lamiijolium.- 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, truncate at base, glabrous above; 



corymbs axillary 45. E. Turczaninowii. 



44. E. LAJMiiFOLiUM HBK. Doubtfully herbaceous (Kunth), 

 suffruticose (Jameson), or shrubby and climbing (Sodiro); stems 

 round, striate, densely pubescent, the hairs delicate, attenuate, and 

 articulated; leaves opposite, petiolate, triangular-ovate, shallow ly 

 cordate, crenate-dentate, thickish-membranaceous, 3(-5)-nerved from 

 the base, rugose, bullate, and scabrid above, coarsely reticulated 

 and gray-velvety beneath, 6-7 cm. long, 4-5 cm. wide; petiole 

 2 cm. long; corymb terminal, dense, rounded, 5 cm. in diameter; 

 heads about 36-flowered (26-50 ace. to Hieron. 1. c), 9 mm. long, 5 mm. 

 in diameter; involucre narrowly campanulate, about 4-seriate; scales 

 about 40, acute, lanceolate, pubescent, green or the inner purple- 

 tinged; florets blue (Jameson); achenes about 2 mm. long, nearly or 

 quite glabrous. — Nov. Gen. et Spec. iv. 113 (1820); Jameson, Syn. 

 PI. Aeq. ii. 88 (1865); Hieron. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 7 (1900)'.— 

 Prov. NOT indicated: "In regno Quitensi," Humboldt & Bonpland 

 (Par., phot. Gr.). Pichincha: Andes of Quito, alt. 2745 m., Jameson, 

 no. 617 (Gr.); in low subandean woods near Quito and Kono, Sodiro, 

 nos. 6/8 and 6/13, ace. to Hieron. 1. c. 



45. E. Turczaninowii, nom. nov. Stem suffruticose, round, 

 smooth; branches sticky-pubescent; leaves ratlier long-petioled, 

 opposite, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, truncate at base, revolute on 

 the margin, crenate, much ^^Tinkled and glabrous abo^•e, white- 

 tomentose beneath; corymbs axillary, nodding; heads many-flowered; 

 involucre 3-seriate, the scales colored, slightly viscitl, ovate-oblong, 

 the outer obtuse, the inner longer and acuminate; receptacle conical; 

 corollas smooth, violet; style-branches linear-clavate, thick; style-base 

 bulbous. — Conclinium rugosum Turcz.'Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxiv. 

 pt. 1, 168 (1851), not Eupatorium nigosum HBK. (1820).— Piciiinxha: 

 Quito, Jameson, no. 209. A species not seen by the VTiter but from 

 character (here compiled) seemingly of this affinity and distinct. 



